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In a post earlier this week on the FCPA Blog, Richard Bistrong talked about his own guilty plea and the aftermath in connection with the DOJ’s Africa sting prosecution.
On Thursday, he talked to CCTV-America.com… Continue Reading
In an appearance Thursday on ESPN, FCPA Blog senior editor Jessica Tillipman discussed the extradition process with Switzerland in the FIFA corruption case.
The DOJ unsealed a 47-count indictment early Wednesday in federal court in New York charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracies during a 24-year corruption scheme at the heart of international soccer.… Continue Reading
If, as argued in the first and second posts, freedom from corruption should be understood as a universal human right, what would it change?
I had the good fortune of presenting these ideas at the Brookings Institution’s World Forum on Governance in Prague.… Continue Reading
We are perhaps six weeks away from a deal which would open up a country shunned for nearly four decades.
It is a stable country in a highly unstable region. One with a highly educated but underemployed population, where there are untapped and almost unlimited oil, gas, chromium, copper, iron, lead, and zinc reserves; where the national airline has not bought a new aircraft in 37 years, and where every aspect of infrastructure requires renewal.… Continue Reading
China is pushing reforms at public hospitals in the wake of widespread complaints about inadequate healthcare services and corruption related to drug sales.
According to a guideline issued by the State Council, reforms that were piloted in 17 cities in 2010 will be expanded to the country’s 6,800 public hospitals by 2017.… Continue Reading
Job Title: Compliance Officer III- Commercial Banking Group, Lending
Employer: BNP Paribas – Bank of the West
Location: San Francisco, California USA
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Responsible in taking a lead role in ensuring that the Commercial Banking Group’s (CBG) policies and procedures are aligned with Bank’s policy and regulatory requirements.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of the KremlinPresident Vladimir Putin signed a law this month that allows prosecutors to declare foreign and international non-governmental organizations “undesirable” and arrest Russians cooperating with them.
The U.S.… Continue Reading
A 47-count indictment was unsealed early Wednesday morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies for a 24-year corruption scheme at the heart of international soccer. … Continue Reading
In this series I’m making the case that we should now think of freedom from corruption as a universal human right. John Locke, whose political philosophy is the foundation of modern rights thinking, certainly thought of corruption this way.… Continue Reading
In her recent post on the FCPA Blog, Alison Taylor said organizational and team culture and norms are overwhelmingly important in explaining why and how corruption occurs. “The person at the desk next to you is a far more important source of how things really work and how to get things done than the code of conduct,” she said.… Continue Reading
Is freedom from corruption a human right? That is, should we understand it as one? The world does not now think of corruption that way. Major international anti-corruption conventions, such as the OECD Convention Against Bribery or UN Convention Against Corruption, do not frame corruption as a rights violation. … Continue Reading
Hyperdynamics Corporation said Friday the DOJ has closed its FCPA investigation without bringing any charges against the company.
The Houston-based oil and gas company said it had cooperated with the government’s investigation, and the “DOJ noted the value of the Company’s cooperation in its [declination] letter.”… Continue Reading